WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK

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SOCIALIST LEADERS GUILTY

Victor L. Berger and Four Associates Violate Espionage Law.

Chicago.—Five leaders of the Social­ist party ‘were found guilty by >a jury after five hours and 50 miufeles' de­liberation in Federal Judge Landis' court Friday of conspiracy to violate the espionage law by delivering public speeches and circulating published ar­ticles with the wilful intent of causing insubordination, disloyalty and refusal of duty among the military and naval forces of the United States and with interfering with the recruiting service and the enforcement of the selective draft law.

SERIOUS FIGHTING ! OCCURS IN BERLINGovernment and Spartacans

in Hot Clashes.

MANY FLEE CAPITAL

Government Issues Proclamation In structing Troops to Prohibit

Gatherings in Streets.

Twenty-two states now have ratified the nation-wide dry amendment. Thirty-six states are required.

A inpvemont to erect a monument at Oyster Bay, N. Y.. to commemorate the life and work of Theodore Roose­velt has been inaugurated.

An annual rental of $53,603,437 is provided in the government contract with the Pennsylvania lines, east, and six subsidiaries, it is announced by the railroad administration.

Major-General J. Franklin Bell, com­mander of tlie Department of the East, died Wednesday night at the Presbyterian hospital In New York. His death was due to heart disease.

Iduho, through action of the state senate Wednesday, ratified the amend­ment to the federal constitution seek­ing to prohibit forever the manufac­ture and sale of Intoxicating liquors in the United States.

Nine persons are dead and a score of others suffering injuries as the re­sult of a spectacular fire and explo­sion which wrecked a.film exchange building in Pittsburg late Wednesday. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000.

Lieutenant-Governor Channing P. Cox of Boston sent a telegram to Sen­ator Lodge Wednesday, asking him to introduce in congress a resolution pro­viding for the changing of the hame of the Panama canal to Roosevelt canal.

Ten million murks arrived in Cob- lentz Thursday by special train, this sum being the first payment by the German government of the ¡5,000,- 000 marks due in January for the ex­penses of the American army of occu­pation.

Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik prem­ier of Russia, has been arrested at the Command of Leon Trotzky, minister of war and marine, who has made himself dictator, according to a Moscow dis­patch to the Gothenburg, Sweden, Gazette.

The Paris Temps says it is able to slnte that President Wilson has offi­cially informed Premier Clemenceau that he does not desire to be consid­ered at the peace congress as the head of a state, hut only as the prime min­ister of his state.

Mrs. William Waltenberg and two sons, George and Arnold, aged 3 and !) years, .respectively, were burned to death In their home in Colville Wed­nesday morning, and another son, Lawrence, uged 7 years, was so badly burned ho is not expected to recover.

The men found guilty are:Victor L. Berger, representative-

elect from Milwaukee, and editor of the Milwaukee Leader.

Adolph Germer, national secretary of the Socialist party.

J. Louis Engdahl, editor ■ of the American Socialist, official publica­tion of the Socialist party.• William F. Kruse, national secre­

tary of the Young People’s Socialist League.

Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, Social­ist writer and lecturer, formerly di­rector of the literature department of the Socialist party, ami author of anti­war pamphlets.

The convicted men face prison terms of from one to 20 years, fines of from $1000 to $10,000, or both, at the discretion of the trial judge, who will fix the puifishment later.

Attorneys for the defendants imme­diately presented a motion for a new trial. Judge Landis fixed Jaunary 23 as .the date when he will hear argu­ments on this motion. The five de­fendants were taken in custody In the courtroom, but a few minutes later were released on their old bonds of $10,000 each. Seymour Stedman, chief counsel for the defendants, declared that the case will he'appealed to the United States supreme court if neces­sary to keep hjs clients out of prison.

REDS TAKE VILNA ANDMASSACRE CIVILIANS

Warsaw.—Vilna has fallen into the hands of the Bolshevik army, several thousand strong, w*hich drove out the Polish militia. A massacre of civil­ians began at once, partly because the Poles had offered resistance and had arrested or shot the members of the local Bolshevik committees.

Tim Polish troops, who had no can­non and only a few cartridges per rifle and were under command of Gen­eral Veitko, retreated to Lanovarova, where they were disarmed by the Ger­mans and sent to Bialystok. There they were robbed by the Germans and were started off for Polish territory, Lemburg, where the Poles aro defend­ing themselves against the Ruthen- ians, apparently safe for the time being.

The political situation at Warsaw I is stationary. As a result of inter­views which Ignace Jan Paderewski has had with General Pilsudski, Pa­derewski has agreed to form a new cabinet, provided the Socialists In the ministry withdraw from their predom­inating position. General Pilsudski expressed himself as not wishing to use Ills authority to force the with­drawal of these Socialists.

Berlin.—The government has decid­ed that it will %pd the plottings of the Spartacus socialists with the means at present at its disposal, and in a proclamation issued Wednesday in­structs its troops to defend the gov­ernment and prohibits gathering of groups in the streets.

Street battles continue. During the fighting .revolvers and hand grenades have been used. The number of per­sons killed or wounded is not known.

The Spartacus group has captured the Spandau arsenal and distributed ;yms among its followers. It is said the government would consent to a parley with the Spartacus faction, pro-

I vided civilians were disarmed, occu­pied buildings were evacuated and

i Chief of Police Eichhorn should give in. The Spartacus group has captured the postoffice. The offices of the Wolff Bureau, the semiofficial news agency, have been transferred to

i Frankfort.

Paris.—Serious fighting occurred Monday in Wilhelmstrasse and a large number of Spartacans are reported to have been killed, say dispatches.

The Independent socialists have join­ed the Spartacans and proclaimed a general strike in Berlin. The majority socialists and democrats are support ing the government.

During the fighting on Monday the Spartacans entered th.e chancellor’s palace, from which they opened fire on

. the buildings of the Vorwaerts. Eich- I horn, the Spartacan police chief, is re- ! ported to be fortified in the castle.

BerMn.—A government official has informed a correspondent that the cab­inet has rallied all agencies to the sup­port of law and order and defense of the government,

“If the Spartacans attack us,” said the official, "they will find us pre­pared. We have all the troops needed to assert our authority. Naturally we are anxious to avoid a conflict, birt if it come* it will not be of our choos­ing.” !

The correspondent has been inform­ed in competent quarters that the gov­ernment is hurriedly mobilizing all available defensive forces. The Sparta­cans also are arming and making the royal stables their headquarters. A spacious apartment in the former chan­cellor’s palace has bden equipped as a Red Cross room.

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LEAGUE OF NATIONS

PLANS FORMULATEDCaptain Martin Van Buren Bates, 74,

world famous us a giant, died at his home at Seville, Ohio, Wednesday. Rates, who toured the world with a circus, wus seven feet four inches tall and weighed 360 pounds. He was married twice, his first wife being over eight feet tall.

The Southern Products company of Dallas, Tex., which was mentioned in n hearing before the senate committee Investigating German propaganda as having participated with the Chase National bank of New York In a loan of $3,000,000 to the German govern­ment, denies any knowledge of such a loan.

Five transports and the battlesdilp North Carolina steamed into New York harbor Tuesday, bringing a total of nearly 9000 officers and men of the army and navy from France. 4

Lieutenant David L. Fultz, United States army, was unanimously elected president of the new International Baseball League at a meeting of cltib owners In New York Tuesday night. At his own request the term was lim Bed to one year.

NEED 1.400,000

TONS FOODSTUFFS•

Washington, D. C.—At least 1,400,- 000 tons of foodstuffs, costing approx­imately $350,000,000 delivered, will be needed to carry through, until the next harvest, the populations of the districts thus far investigated by the American staff of the Commission on European Relief. This estimate was seut by Herbert Hoover to the Food administration in a cablegram review­ing the conditions as found in central Europe and tho Balkan states. Finland. Baltic states, Serbia, Jugo slavia, Vien­na, Tyrol, Polnnd, Roumanie, Bulgaria. Armenia and Czecho slovakia.

The surveys made by the American commission, Mr. Hoover said, discloses that meats, fats and milk are so short In many regions that the health of the people Is very much impaired, mortal­ity among children is appalling, and there is a constant nleuace through the threatened spread of Bolshevism, espe­cially in the cities.

Paris.—The return to Paris of Presi- ! dent Wilson, the arrival of Lord ttob- | ert Cecil, the special delegate of the ; British government on the league of nations, and the presence here of Leon Bourgeois, the French representative on the same subject, marked the in­auguration of exchanges on the defin­ite terms by which the league is to be constituted.

Already considerable progress has been made on the various tentative proposals, but in the absence of the president has not taken definite form, but it is expected that he personally will take a leading part in the final formulation of the plan. Meanwhile, however, the various governments chiefly interested are presenting out­lines In qplte definite form.

The British plans of this tentative j natuA> have been presented, one by Lord Robert Cecil, the other by Lieu- j tenant General Smuts, of the War cab- j inet. The French plan as formulated by M. Bourgeois also has been set j forth and these are being compared by j the American specialists, who are pro paring the ground work for President | Wilson.

The Red CrosR canteen service, both at home and abroad, will be i maintained “until every soldier is { home,” according to George F. Scott, I general manager of the American Red j Cross.

President Wilson will return to the United States to attend tho closing sessions of the present congress, ac­cording to present plans, and will come hack to France for the later sit­tings of the peace congress, says a Paris dispatch.

Twelve T ransport’s Fitted Up

New York.—Twelve former freight steamships Of the Amertcan-Hawatian and Iuickenbach lines have been taken over and equipped as transports, with a combined troop-carrying capacity of 19.000 to 20,000 men, by the Untted States army transport service, It was announced here Saturday.

Before the war the vessels were in the South American and Panama canal trade, and during the conflict they | were used as cargo carriers.

Washington. D. C.—Total deaths j among the American expeditionary, forces in northern Russia to January 4 were given as six officers aiW 126 men.

i In a cablegram received at the War department from Colonel James A. j

■ Haggles, American military attache j with Ambassador Francis at Arch-

ment of the troops was complete, the health excellent and the morale very good. Food conditions were described

j as very good.

MERCHANT SHIPS TO CARRY CADETS

MISS ELIZABETH WALKER

Training System of Shipping Board to Be Extended to

Large Vessels.

STUDY FOR HIGHER PEACESYoung Men W ill Learn the Road to

the Quarter Deck and Counting Room— H igh C la ss of Sea­

men Wanted.

Washington.—Apprentices and endet officers will be placed on all large ves­sels of the American merchant marine, to be trained for higher places, much

; the same as sailor boys were trained to "become officers nnd shipping mer-

| chants in the early days of American seagoing, according to a plan to be put into execution at once by the United States shipping board.

The basis of this plan is a system of individunl training on shipboard for American youth capable of-rislng through instruction to a shipping ca­reer, the ultimate goal of which is .the position of sldpninster, steamship agent or manager, or trade representa-

I tive at home or abroad in the great program of commercial expansion by sea by which the country is to keep busy it? vast merchant fleet.

The plan has been devised as an ex­tension o f . the wartime system of training conducted by the board, through which large numbers of Amer­ican lads were given brief intensive schooling on training ships, before be­ing sent to sea.

For Comm ercial Service.This finished product is expected to

mature in the form of able seamen of a high type, petty officers, deck and engine-room officers—all Americans— as well as n needed supply of young men* experienced in sen-going and car­go-handling, who can he further trained in steamship offices and export­ing and Importing business houses, with a view to later commercial serv­ice connected with shipping.

It was this system of training that enabled early merchants of Salem nnd Boston to outstrip all rivals in foreign trade, and make themselves and their communities rich.

In thus extending its present train­ing service—which continues ns here­tofore under the direction of Henry Howard of Boston—the shipping board has the benefit of experience in train­ing cadets at sea gained' by its new director of operations, Jolui H. Kos- seter of San Francisco.

Mr. Rnsseter has decided ideas on the training of young Americans for seafaring and for steamship opera­tion. He has tried out many of these | ideas In a practical way through his j management of the Pacific Mail Steam­ship company, one of the largest ship­ping interests operating from the American West const to the Orient, South Sens and South America.

At the conclusion of a recent con­ference at Washington of shipping- board officials Interested 111 develop­ing the training plans of the board un­der peace conditions, Mr. Rosseter expressed his views on the subject at length. Later he embodied them in ¡lie following interview:

hfigh C la ss of Seaman W anted. "Shipping men are agreed that if at­

tainment of our new and enlarging in­terest in foreign bommeree is to be se­cured, we must certainly hnve a very» high class of American merchant sea­men ; the same kind we lmve so ad­mirably developed for our navy.

“We all know of the higher social siandafd that naturally prevails in this country; nnd, personally, I would say that I would not only accept the present standards, but I am disposed to go n step further, beciyise that is the tendency; nnd if we nre to get good men and train them to be good seamen nnd then good officers, we must see that they nre placed under such environment ns will naturally evolve into a condition of their being

§ DAD AND 3 SONS FIGHT g 3 UNDER GEN. PERSHINGO ---------

o Natick, Mass.—Murtin Neury• of this town, whose three sons• are members of Generul Per-2 shing’s forces in France, was of himself In Pershing's command 5 on the plains of Arizona during « the Indian campaigns. Pershing 2 was then second lieutenant of a of cavalry troop and Neary was a S' sergeant. g

good foreign representatives in com­mercial and industrial lines, nnd agents on the staffs of the steamship lines at home nnd in foreign ports.

“I regard the recruiting service of the shipping board ns something that is to produce for the mercantile ma­rine of the United States a substantial type of men of the seamen’s class thnt will be officers later on, men who can go abroad,and learn the business» and carry the Americun interests with them. 1

“I want to make seagoing just as attractive as I possibly cun. 1 want to attrnct to it the boys who come from colleges, and who know how to swim and play tjnseball. I want to make conditions, aboard ship such that they will feel it is the best destiny they can find.

“The men we want to attract to the sea, I feel, are the men such ns we remember ourselves in our school days —nice, clean boys, who had good homes, and who wore leaving home amid the old family discussion as to whether they would be bankers, insur­ance men, retail merchants, or what not. I want to add to that list the very important nnd very alluring oc­cupation of the pursuit of the sea.

“When we ask American .boys to come aboard ship, we certainly must ail recognize that we have got to as­sure them of quite a different condi­tion than lias existed in foreign com­merce during the past thirty years; I might say, unhappily existed.”

TH EFT OF HOUSE CHARGEDContractor Is Brought Into Court A c­

cused of the Larceny of a Dw ell­ing House.

Medford, Mass.—Charged with the larceny of a dwelling house, Clarence McLean, a building wrecker, lias been brought into court by Mrs. Mary J. Gilleland, owner of the property. Ac-

One of the handsomest of the debu­tantes of this winter’s social season in Washington.

cording to the evidence submitted Mc­Lean negotiated with Mrs. Gilleland for the dismantlement of the house, af­ter it had been condemned by a hand­ing inspector. Mrs. Gilleland denied that such an arrangement had been made and charged that McLean “stole the house.” The court continued the cuse to give the principals an oppor­tunity to adjust the matter between themselves.

BRITISH GIRLS ARE TRAINED

Food M in istry Prepares Young W omen Employees for Commercial

Careers.

London.—Hundreds of girls em­ployed at the ministry of food regis­tration clearing house are receiving in­structions during working hours for commercial careers. The London county council has taken charge of their education and each girl is given one and a quarter hours every day ex­cept Saturday for instruction and study.

Classes fire held three times a day. The girls are from sixteen to eighteen years old.

There are classes in bookkeeping French ami shorthand, and the girls are also given the choice of recreation classes in elocution and singing.

SHELL SHOCK HITS YANKEES LIGHTLY

Few Hundreds Only Are Suffering From War’s Strange

Malady.

MANY RESTORED BY PEACEAlt V ictim s W ill Be Completely R e­

covered in a Year, S ay s Surgeon General’s Office— Less Than

1,000 Cases to Be Treated.

Washington.—Fear that the nation will have a big problem on Its hands in the care of soldiers suffering from shell shock is utterly without foun­dation, declared Col. Peace Bailey of the surgeon general’s office. Amplify­ing the Statement before the senate military committee that hundreds of victims of the strange disease actually recovered at the signing of the armis­tice, Colonel Bailey expressed the opinion thnt so far as'present knowl­edge of the malady indicates, practl-

SHOES FOR THE DESTITUTE BELGIANS

The g irt In Hu« p h o lo g ro H o i* it n«\ i ilw iii i m o f an enormous pile of shoes donate»! h> to -op te . II o v e r th I 'n tte » ! s - r .t the destitute people of Belgium. The ?li >«•■» nr>> m a ward* •use in N work. N. J.. which is the distributing centir of tliou siiH »'* ><f I -ns of »loth ng for the Belgians.

cully all victims of shell shock should be completely recovered within a year, the great majority In a much shorter time.

Less Than Thousand Cases.Reports received here are that there

are now less than a thousand cases of shell shock to be treated, thanks to the improved methods by which the United States army combated the af­fliction. Preparations had been made to take, care of 2,500 cases, sent to this side by March 1, but since hostilities ceased word from France shows there ure only 300 cases there requiring treatment in this country. There are probably about the same number en route home.

It is accepted here that the drop in the expected number of sufferers was due directly to ttie news of Germany’s surrender. The only explanation for this is the removal from the sufferers of apprehension that they would again be subjected to an ordeal that, acting on the minds, actually twisted their bodies out of shape.

Serious as have been the ravages of shell shock among the troops, said Colonel Bailey, described by Surgeon General Ireland us one of the coun­try's leading psychiatrists, the United States forces have not suffered to the extent those o f the other allies have. This Is due largely to the fact that 93 per cent of the cases developing have been cured in the field hospitals by the prompt treatment provided.

Given Special Treatment.The more seriously afflicted are

brought to this country and seut to Plattsburg, N. T„ where there is a special hospital of 1.500 beds. Within a short time after admittance most pntients avow they are regaining their normal condition, and ufter observa­tion Indicates that this is so, they nre removed to n casual detachment at the hospital for brief additional observa­tion. When it is tfvident they have recovered they are sent to camps near their homes to be mustered out.

The rapidity with which cases nre* being cleared through Plattsburg con­vinces Colonel Bailey that there will be few permanently disabled by the disease. This Is tn marked contrast to the situation In England where there are 20,000 shell shock, victims on the pension rolls.

Colonel Bailey revealed thnt. con­trary to the general belief, shell shock does not necessarily come from heavy cannonading. Proof of this is found in the fact that from 10 to 12 per cent of the casualties in the «’bateau Thi­erry fighting were shell shock, most of these men haring «*en exposed only to machine gun fire.